Anne-Marie Ellis Senior counsel

Anne-Marie has a wide-ranging practice covering residential and commercial property, with a particular focus on the acquisition and disposal of high value residential properties and development land for both domestic and international clients.

Anne-Marie has been in practice for over 20 years and has built up an extensive client base and network of contacts, both in the UK and abroad. She has been involved in transactions across a broad spectrum of property types, from dilapidated building projects to luxury new homes, country estates and mixed use premises.

Much of her work involves heritage properties and new-build trophy assets: she engages closely with colleagues and professional contacts in the tax, construction and planning spheres to provide comprehensive due diligence advice on what are usually complex transactions, undertaken within short timeframes. She engages closely with the key buying and selling agents, very often on off-market deals where discretion, diplomacy, pragmatism and speed are key to a successful outcome.

She undertakes residential finance transactions, acting as panel solicitor for a number of private banks on secured lending matters and representing borrowers seeking finance to purchase residential properties. Given the nature of the clients and properties, such financing arrangements are usually complicated and time-sensitive.

Anne-Marie also acts for landlords and tenants on leasehold enfranchisement claims and under the first rights of refusal legislation.

Expertise

Recent work

Luxury new homes

Advising purchasers of luxury new homes in super prime London, many of which have been both off-plan and off-market.

Short lease of a property

Advising a seller of a short lease of a property with the benefit of a claim to purchase the freehold with a price in excess of £17m.

Owner of a multi-let block

Advising the owner of a multi-let block of residential flats on the corporate restructuring and disposal of the asset.

£33m grade ll listed house

Advising the purchaser of a £33m grade II listed house on the Crown Estate by way of acquisition of the issued share capital of the vendor company.

Prime London Estates

Advising purchasers, sellers and lessees on the prime London Estates (Crown, Cadogan and Grosvenor Estates) covering acquisitions, disposals, financing and ancillary assistance in relation to applications for licence to alter.

Lease extension and enfranchisement claims

Advising landlords and tenants on lease extension and enfranchisement claims, as well as first rights of refusal acquisitions and disposals.

Various landlords

Advising various landlords on lease terminations, renewals and management matters for multi-let commercial premises in Knightsbridge.